- note added: mpartition doesn't handle large disk images properly

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And you now have a formatted disk image containing a single DOS And you now have a formatted disk image containing a single DOS
partition. partition.
</para> </para>
<note><para>
The mpartition command doesn't handle images larger than 1024 cylinders properly.
The partition size reported by fdisk is okay, but mformat reports only 504 MB
(tested with mtools 3.9.9).
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